LemonLeaf
Love books about friends, walking, trees, and excessive detail. @LemonTree is my mom :]
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A variety pack sampler to get you started on your own Sci-Fi adventure. There's a little bit of everything, from speculative sci-fi, to aliens, and a bit of everything in between!
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So...how do I say this? I've been watching The Pitt recently, and I realized I am INTO it, like really into it. I think it's my current fixation tbh. That led me to wonder: does anyone have any books that give "the pitt" vibes? It doesn't have to be medical/medical-related books. For example, I started reading "A Magical Girl Retires", and I was thinking "Robby should read this book" (yeah, it's that bad lol) due to its story dealing with a burnt out, near the end of her rope protagonist who is just looking for a way out, and she's struggling with grief. So yeah, any books that give the vibes of the different characters, maybe or plot points. Thanks!!!
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Emily Tesh
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LemonLeaf commented on LemonLeaf's review of The Hands of the Emperor (Lays of the Hearth-Fire, #1)
I really loved this book. I was pretty sure for the first 50 pages or so that I was in for a boring doorstopper, but the next thing I knew I was several hundred pages in and physically stricken at the prospect of something bad happening to one of the characters. The characterization in this book was real and intricate enough that I felt actual love for the characters, which isn't something I get to say about a book often enough. And the world-building was masterfully done; it really felt like an ages-old established universe.
I don't think this book is for everyone; if "friendship-heavy bureaucratic fantasy" doesn't sound like your thing, it's probably not for you. There's a lot of the bureaucracy. I'm also willing to admit that the end of the book gets a bit repetitive (probably an understatement) and could have been pared down. If you're waffling on this one, I'd say The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison is a pretty good litmus test; you'll be more likely to enjoy this one if you liked that one.
In short, this was a fantasy about good people becoming friends and working to build a better worldāwarm-fuzzies for the detail-oriented. And the persistent. I can't wait to read the next one!
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This book was both a breath of fresh air and a reality check against environmental fatalism.
When our most dominant environmental narratives insist that environmental destruction is inherent to human nature, it can feel difficult, and even unwise, to imagine a good future. This book presents an alternate worldview with such clarity and historical precedent that the idea of centering gratitude, respect, and reciprocity in our relationship with the natural world starts to seem less like a hopeless dream and more like a real option that we just haven't chosen yet.
Kimmerer has to do a lot of reframing work in order to communicate this worldview; seeing how thoroughly our grammar, our myths, and our scientific protocols limit us felt very much like being given a new set of eyes. These perspectives have a lot to offer to science, tooā Kimmerer acknowledges that indigenous ways of knowing are scientific in their own way, and that understanding has clearly enriched her own practice of botany.
This book makes such a strong case that the stories we tell ourselves have a colossal impact on what actions we're motivated to take. Allowing for personhood in the natural world, feeling gratitude to the plants that take care of us, feeling obligated to reciprocate that careāall these perspectives have so much more emotional strength as motives for sustainability than anything else we're trying to latch onto at the moment. I don't expect that any destructive people in power will be changed by these ideas, but those of us who do care have a desperate practical need to believe in something better. This book gives us something better to believe in.
There was a portion where the essays dragged a bit for me, but I'm sure that's subjective, and the flow recovered quickly anyway.
This review has felt a bit clinical, so I want to make sure to add that this book got me really emotional about plants (even more so than I usually am). We can be partners. We can be friends. We can take care of each other in hard times. I've walked away with a fanatical love for cattails, and I'm prepared to believe it's mutual.
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Thank you so much to everyone who voted for my Latin American Horror list to be made into a Side Quest and thank you to everyone who has already joined it!
I am overwhelmed by all the love Iām getting from everyone and I still canāt believe that not only was my list nominated, but that enough people actually voted for it to be made into a Side Quest! I am so honored and I truly have no words.
I never thought that making a little list would get me here. Iām from Costa Rica and I wanted to spread some love not only for Latin American authors, but for my favorite genre as well. To see that other people share my sentiment is so touching and amazing.
I canāt believe how much love my Side Quest is gettingā itās making me so emotional, especially during these times when Latin American people have been getting so much hate in the U.S. and some people would love nothing more than for us to be ashamed of our heritage.
To that I say: QUĆ RICO ES SER LATINO.
Ps. If you want to see more Latin American Horror recommendations, please check out my šlist that inspired this Side Quest. I am planning on keeping the list alive and adding more recommendations as I find them.
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